Now China starts swabbing FISH: Officials bent on imposing country's zero-Covid policy

Now China starts swabbing FISH: Officials bent on imposing country's zero-Covid policy

Source: dailymail

8/18/2022

here's something fishy going on in the Chinese port city of Xiamen.

China's zero-Covid policy was already strict, but now authorities are tightening the net and checking the catch of the day for Covid-19.

Video shows Chinese Covid-19 hazmat suits vigorously swabbing fish before allowing them to be sold in the market.

City authorities said it necessary to test returning workers before they returned to harbour — allegedly because some fishers had made illegal trades with overseas vessels while at sea.

Crabs and shrimp are also being tested for traces of the virus, footage shows.

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